Breasties

n.

Heard in Tyrone

Oversized sods of turf cut from the spongy bogland around Lough Neagh, introduced by a Dutchman named Van Gogh working for Bord na Móna at the turn of the twentieth century.

In use

We stacked some breasties today

Posh English

We stacked some particularly large sods of turf today.

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